Real Estate Crowdfunding Stays Hot as RealtyShares Raises $10M

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Wednesday, April 8 Top Stories Visit Our Site Follow Like RSS RealtyShares Raises $10M in Series A Round — RealtyShares, a real estate crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, announced yesterday that it’s raised $10 million in a Series A round from Menlo Ventures and General Catalyst Partners. The company has …

Crowdnetic Announces Agenda for Crowdfinance 2014

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

              Crowdnetic Announces Agenda for Crowdfinance 2014   The premier event for the peer-lending marketplace and equities crowdfunding industries will feature prominent leaders and seasoned financial veterans.   New York, NY – Crowdnetic, the leading provider of technology and market data solutions to the …

Reviving the small cap IPO market with Reg A Crowdfinanced Offerings

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Exclusive Invitation In December 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to propose rules updating the framework to the existing Regulation A offering. As mandated by Title IV of the JOBS Act, the SEC’s proposed rules would raise the Reg A offering threshold from $5 million to $50 million in …

Crowdnetic Presents Crowdfinance 2014

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Crowdfunding

Crowdnetic Presents Crowdfinance 2014 We invite you to join us in NYC on October 16 for Wall Street’s second annual Crowdfinance Conference.  Our stellar lineup of speakers features financial veterans as well as legal experts and representatives from the top companies covering the vast scope of the emerging crowdfinance industry. …

Direct Public Offering (DPO) Boot Camp #2!

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Crowdfunding

April 2014 IN THIS ISSUE CEC News Blog Roll Client News Upcoming Events News  Direct Public Offering (DPO) Boot Camp #2! Participants in the 2nd DPO boot camp talk about securities in the first class.  After the success of our inaugural DPO boot camp that ended in February, we’re proud …

SRI Pioneer Amy Domini Takes Impact Investing to the Public Markets

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By Ellie Winninghoff SRI pioneer Amy Domini last week celebrated the launch of Nia Global Solutions (Nia), a new type of portfolio that takes impact investing into public stock markets. Co-founded with Oakland-based Kristin Hull, a seasoned entrepreneurial philanthropist and impact investor, Nia consists of narrowly focused firms whose sole …

The Next Big Thing in Crowdfunding

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser   The Next Big Thing in Crowdfunding   TSL Publications   ARTICLES   Crowdfunding: A Tectonic Shift in Real Estate Investing (NuWire Investor)   With the democratization of financing via different means, most prominent would be the US Jumpstart Our Business …

CircleUp Launches ‘Circles,’ Diversified Funds for Consumer Goods Companies

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Wednesday, May 7 Top Stories Visit Our Site Follow Like RSS CircleUp Launches Diversified Funds for Consumer Product Companies — CircleUp, an equity crowdfunding platform for consumer goods companies, announced last week the launch of diversified investment funds, which it calls ‘Circles.’ Circles come in two varieties: investor led and …

OurCrowd Raises $25M, Largest Investment in an Equity Crowdfunding Platform Yet

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Wednesday, April 30 Top Stories Visit Our Site OurCrowd Closes $25M Series B Round — OurCrowd, the Israel-based equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, announced earlier this week that it raised a $25 million Series B private funding round. The company claims this is the largest investment in an equity …

TheCrowdCafe Weekly Review – Say Hello to our First Collection, “University Crowdfunding.”

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TheCrowdCafe weekly • March 9th, 2014 • Happy Sunday, All! Welcome to this week’s edition of TheCrowdCafe’s Weekly Review. Each week I curate the top investment crowdfunding news from around the web. My promise to you: quality over quantity, always. You can subscribe here. From TheCrowdCafe Say Hello to our First Collection, “University …